Nighttime Urban Parkour Enthusiast? Stay Safe With The Fos

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It’s only a matter of time before fashion and tech fully collide. It’s not enough that we now like to buy our clothes on the internet — companies like Google and Nike and Fitbit are determined to make us strap technology onto our faces and arms.

A new Kickstarter project, Fos, is looking for funding to do the same thing with a focus on athletes.

Fos is an LED-illuminated patch of cloth that can be stuck onto other items of clothing, like a jacket or shirt.

Users can program their Fos to display calories burned, how close you are to your goal, etc. Users can even use Fos’ demo application to choose specific graphics or video to display on the 60fps LED patch with 64,000 shades of light. According to the creators, it weighs less than a golf ball.

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The idea is not only to look super cool (and trust me, nothing is cooler than electronic clothing), but to stay safe when working out in urban areas. However, founder Anders Nelson admits in his Kickstarter video that it’s not only for the Urban athlete.

The Fos is also for the party animal raver inside all of us. In fact, DJs can even decide to push out custom-tailored graphics to all the Fos bodies in the room to make one giant human light installation. But first, of course, the Fos needs to hit the mainstream.

And before that can happen, Fos needs to reach its $200,000 funding goal on Kickstarter in the next four weeks.

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OverviewErogear has created a wearable video display platform that is durable and affordable enough for mass market use. The display is made of LED-based flexible circuits and can be discretely embedded into any garment or wearable gear. The display is fed with images at upwards of 30 frames per second for smooth animation, and the user can change the video content at any time. Video content can be delivered …